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Floating License not released EVER

Oosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:23:56 GMT

When I completely close out of Archicad 29 on my PC and the next day try to open Archicad 29 on my Mac, I have to log in and release the license manually. How can I tell the licensing server to release the license after 30 mins?

Re: Floating License not released EVER

marcoariveross — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:48:24 GMT

Hi
I think it's an excellent idea. It should be more automated.

I also have an issue with accessing two servers simultaneously on the same machine. Honestly, I find it inefficient.

Re: Floating License not released EVER

Lingwisyer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:40:05 GMT

Are you using a Software or Cloud license? Cloud license do automatically release after 30 minutes as far as I know, and if you really want to, you can manually release the license using the web manager. There is no such functionality for Software licenses.

Ling.

Re: Floating License not released EVER

Barry Kelly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:09:45 GMT

A 'floating' cloud license that is not associated with a particular user will be released after 30 minutes or so.

A 'named' license, one that has been associated to a particular user, will not be automatically released.

It will prompt you to release it if you try to use it on another machine.

Your company license admin person can set a license to be floating or associate it to a particular user.

Barry.

Re: Floating License not released EVER

Oosh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:34:07 GMT

Excellent. Thank you, Barry! That did the trick.

Re: Floating License not released EVER

Lingwisyer — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:21:19 GMT

So the issue was that it was a named licence?